Re: Unbloating the kernel, was: :mem=16MB laptop testing

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> There are literally thousands of schools, all over the world, which
> simply cannot afford any money on computers. The "HW is cheap" slogan is
> very cruel when recited in places where 64 MB of RAM are one month's
> salary. I am not kidding.

I am very happy to see that there is a project to take
care of the needs of people with older hardware.

If you ever need help on the kernel side, let me know.

I know a lot of friends in various countries who simply
don't have the money to buy a new computer. Granted, 64MB
isn't anywhere near a monthly salary for most of them,
but after paying their bills they still don't have enough
money left to buy a new computer (and if they had, they
should buy something else with it ... there really isn't
a good excuse on why software is getting this much more
bloated).

-- 
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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